Just to play DA but how can he GET a legitimate relay if he always hangs up on them? The statistics could be off because of that. I think it's not a good solution to just hang up, but if that's what he needs to do, that's his choice (although I would advise him to have a list of store policies that explictly state that they do not sell to any relayed callers).
More to the point would you be confortable using this if you deaf g/f called you using this and the person relaying was a guy with a really deep voice?
They will handle it, however they way that handle it is by forcing the merchant to give the money back to the person who's stolen card was used. Now the merchant is out moeny for falling for the scam (which is bad but partly their fault) and the deaf people still have long lines and a difficult time using services that are almost vital to them doing things you and I take for granted.
Ok, I was using out of date information. This was not a "fantastic claim" it was a stat that went and looked up as being about 10 - 15 years old, which is about the amount of time that has passed since the source of that info stopped working in power generation.
In this case it's not oil that we are dependent on but COAL. Now while we mine coal right here in the US remember that coal mining is by far the most dangerous occupation in the US, for each coal plant in the US one coal-miner is killed each year in an accident. This doesn't count the long term healt and psychological effects that mining has on a person. Nor does it take into effects the polution generated by a coal plant. Sorry, but oil fuels some of our energy needs (heating and automobiles) but very little oil is used in electrical power generation.
I agree. However the grand-parent that I was replying to indicated that most meaningful communication happened face to face and that that was unlikly to change. I'm not advocating replacing face to face communication, just replacing things like phones with a better system.
Well Holograms can help turn internet communication into face-to-face communication. You have a camera(s) and a projector(s) on each end and for both people it looks like the person is standing right there (ok maybe with some of that cool "I can swee right though you" kinda feel).
state version was still $25 or so. My state income tax is based on federal tax, so it only takes 10 minutes once your federal taxes are done.
Yeah, not all states are that easy. I never stop being shocked at how difficult CA can make the state return. I have NEVER seen another state like CA where at some point you expect to get a negative number, and then need to subrtact that negative number from another negative number before subrtacting the whoe thing from a positive number! I did my federal by hand and it took a lot less time then doing CA's by hand. Not OR on the other hand makes state taxes take like 10 min.
I have windows XP on my work system and explorer crashs at least once a week, it usually recovers without a reboot but now all the icons in the system tray are missng and I have a ton of orphaned processes and some of my programs *cough*word*cough* can't aceess the file system to save. Now before you go off saying "it's hardware" this same computer ran 2K for 8 months perfectly. Now I know many people who use XP just fine, but I also know many people who have problems. There is not "perfect os for everyone", everyone needs to use what works best for them.
That is an interesting situation. My only issue with the "have them get one" is that I have it, if they get me one now i'm carrying two, one of work one for personal which with a PDA phone would be a real pain. (I bought this phone for personal usage, the work is a bonus). Sorry about all you went through though.
Out of curisoty how did they blow up in your face? I use my PDA/Cellphone combo for work all the time. I have people txt message it when i'm out of the office, I have people call it, I return calls on it, I log into the office via VPN on it and check/kick off jobs. I've never hard a problem. I'm curious as to what type of issues you have had because I would hate to fall prey to the same problems.
Then again how was that survey sent out, by spam? If so they are already talking to a smaller set of people (the first 80% threw it out, so that number could really be 8% of 20% or 1.6%.
12, I drive a full size van and 12 in the city is like a pipe dream! The enviromental gestapo hasn't won, but that have made it so that my current van puts out 1/2 the "emissions" at the same mpg as my old van did. The emssions systems today do a much better job at filtering then those even 10 years ago.....That's a "win" for them, but it doesn't mean they have "won".
1+2) Then you run the risk of having the gamer never make it out of a level. If you have GameA which many gamers get frustrated because they can never finish, how well will GameA2:EvenHarder sell?
3) Nothing pisses me off more then a point in a game where I have 10 options, none of which I like. The problem here is you CAN NOT know what everyone will want to do. If there's 2500 "decition points" in your game the odds of EVERY player hitting one that doesn't have the option they think of is pretty good....now you are annoying your user (which still happens today, but at least in most cases you only have 1 or 2 options so you don't feel so left out when what you want isn't there).
4) I will pay $20.00 to go to a crappy movie with my wife and we will have a good time, even if all we do is poke fun of the movie. I won't pay $35-$55 for a crappy game that will frustrate me for a long time. I have to agree with the article, I used to buy and play lots of games, but it seems that now when i buy a game i'm usually disapointed, and it seems too much like what i've already played. I don't buy too many games now because of this.
Or read a copy of "Inherit the Earth" by Stableford. It's not the main theme of the book by any means, but in it he talks about buildings being built by macines out of a liquid concrete. I don't remember how much detail he used but it sounds like the same kind of idea.
Well the grandparent (whom I was originally replying to) askked about Windows and Scripting. So you DO have to have a sopy of windows, but the WSH is build into 2K and XP and 2k3 by default. So it doesn't cast any more then the OS and since this person asked about scripting for windows, the implication was that they already HAD windows.
Not only that but the retail copys will all have the activation required which the versions through the SA don't. For large IT shops this would be a killer....oppsss gotta call MS again to get this copy of XP to work....
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Just to play DA but how can he GET a legitimate relay if he always hangs up on them? The statistics could be off because of that. I think it's not a good solution to just hang up, but if that's what he needs to do, that's his choice (although I would advise him to have a list of store policies that explictly state that they do not sell to any relayed callers).
More to the point would you be confortable using this if you deaf g/f called you using this and the person relaying was a guy with a really deep voice?
They will handle it, however they way that handle it is by forcing the merchant to give the money back to the person who's stolen card was used. Now the merchant is out moeny for falling for the scam (which is bad but partly their fault) and the deaf people still have long lines and a difficult time using services that are almost vital to them doing things you and I take for granted.
Ok, I was using out of date information. This was not a "fantastic claim" it was a stat that went and looked up as being about 10 - 15 years old, which is about the amount of time that has passed since the source of that info stopped working in power generation.
In this case it's not oil that we are dependent on but COAL. Now while we mine coal right here in the US remember that coal mining is by far the most dangerous occupation in the US, for each coal plant in the US one coal-miner is killed each year in an accident. This doesn't count the long term healt and psychological effects that mining has on a person. Nor does it take into effects the polution generated by a coal plant. Sorry, but oil fuels some of our energy needs (heating and automobiles) but very little oil is used in electrical power generation.
Except google's gmail which they INSIST is real!
I agree. However the grand-parent that I was replying to indicated that most meaningful communication happened face to face and that that was unlikly to change. I'm not advocating replacing face to face communication, just replacing things like phones with a better system.
Well Holograms can help turn internet communication into face-to-face communication. You have a camera(s) and a projector(s) on each end and for both people it looks like the person is standing right there (ok maybe with some of that cool "I can swee right though you" kinda feel).
state version was still $25 or so. My state income tax is based on federal tax, so it only takes 10 minutes once your federal taxes are done.
Yeah, not all states are that easy. I never stop being shocked at how difficult CA can make the state return. I have NEVER seen another state like CA where at some point you expect to get a negative number, and then need to subrtact that negative number from another negative number before subrtacting the whoe thing from a positive number! I did my federal by hand and it took a lot less time then doing CA's by hand. Not OR on the other hand makes state taxes take like 10 min.
Actually the IT guys did reformat the drive and put on a fresh image. I don't know what the problem is, I prefer 2K over XP because of these issues.
I have windows XP on my work system and explorer crashs at least once a week, it usually recovers without a reboot but now all the icons in the system tray are missng and I have a ton of orphaned processes and some of my programs *cough*word*cough* can't aceess the file system to save. Now before you go off saying "it's hardware" this same computer ran 2K for 8 months perfectly. Now I know many people who use XP just fine, but I also know many people who have problems. There is not "perfect os for everyone", everyone needs to use what works best for them.
Actually I think it's "Joesephine" 2 wine-coolers and shot of pepermint schnopps.
I have to agree the 8.1 Vortex is a MUCH better choice of engine here. :)
They can't sell windows in the EU anymore, so ALL computers sold in the EU would have to be MS free.
That is an interesting situation. My only issue with the "have them get one" is that I have it, if they get me one now i'm carrying two, one of work one for personal which with a PDA phone would be a real pain. (I bought this phone for personal usage, the work is a bonus). Sorry about all you went through though.
Out of curisoty how did they blow up in your face? I use my PDA/Cellphone combo for work all the time. I have people txt message it when i'm out of the office, I have people call it, I return calls on it, I log into the office via VPN on it and check/kick off jobs. I've never hard a problem. I'm curious as to what type of issues you have had because I would hate to fall prey to the same problems.
Then again how was that survey sent out, by spam? If so they are already talking to a smaller set of people (the first 80% threw it out, so that number could really be 8% of 20% or 1.6%.
12, I drive a full size van and 12 in the city is like a pipe dream! The enviromental gestapo hasn't won, but that have made it so that my current van puts out 1/2 the "emissions" at the same mpg as my old van did. The emssions systems today do a much better job at filtering then those even 10 years ago.....That's a "win" for them, but it doesn't mean they have "won".
1+2) Then you run the risk of having the gamer never make it out of a level. If you have GameA which many gamers get frustrated because they can never finish, how well will GameA2:EvenHarder sell? 3) Nothing pisses me off more then a point in a game where I have 10 options, none of which I like. The problem here is you CAN NOT know what everyone will want to do. If there's 2500 "decition points" in your game the odds of EVERY player hitting one that doesn't have the option they think of is pretty good....now you are annoying your user (which still happens today, but at least in most cases you only have 1 or 2 options so you don't feel so left out when what you want isn't there). 4) I will pay $20.00 to go to a crappy movie with my wife and we will have a good time, even if all we do is poke fun of the movie. I won't pay $35-$55 for a crappy game that will frustrate me for a long time. I have to agree with the article, I used to buy and play lots of games, but it seems that now when i buy a game i'm usually disapointed, and it seems too much like what i've already played. I don't buy too many games now because of this.
Or read a copy of "Inherit the Earth" by Stableford. It's not the main theme of the book by any means, but in it he talks about buildings being built by macines out of a liquid concrete. I don't remember how much detail he used but it sounds like the same kind of idea.
Well the grandparent (whom I was originally replying to) askked about Windows and Scripting. So you DO have to have a sopy of windows, but the WSH is build into 2K and XP and 2k3 by default. So it doesn't cast any more then the OS and since this person asked about scripting for windows, the implication was that they already HAD windows.
Spoken like someone with dozens of dead roaches in his kitchen floor......
Any book on VBscripting will do. It's not as cool as shell scripting, but if you need to administer a couple of windows boxes, it's the way to go.
Not only that but the retail copys will all have the activation required which the versions through the SA don't. For large IT shops this would be a killer....oppsss gotta call MS again to get this copy of XP to work....
That just makes you a 5 and a half foot tall dick....but we already knew that......